date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 22:17:02 from: Alastair Grant subject: six day creation to: m.hulme@uea.ac.uk I've done a little thinking about your problem. I wonder whether it might be worthwhile trying to tackle the underlying issues about the relationship between scientific method and scripture, rather than tackling the creationism head on? If you you for the creationist jugular, then you automatically get into a confrontation and, as you noted, the creationist views may be so closely ingrained into his whole thinking that movement on this might undermine a major part of his faith. Hooykas particularly springs to mind (I have a copy of religion and the rise of modern science, if you don't) but there is some relevant material in Colin Russel's books too. You might also try discussing the Galileo issue as an example of where most would now agree that the church got it wrong on the basis of scriptural interpretation (albeit the catholics rather than BCS!). Another possible approach is the literature which looks at the theological context of the Genesis narrative and argues that it is couched as a polemic against the Babylonian creation myth rather than being primarily designed as a science text book (Blocher would be a start on this, but I've got a useful book by Wiseman that discusses this in detail from a very conservative perspective). But I suspect that line may not cut much ice. Hope this is of some help, best wishes, Alastair Dr. Alastair Grant School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK. Phone 01603 592537 Fax 01603 507719 Email: A.Grant@uea.ac.uk WWW: http://www.uea.ac.uk/~e130/ag.htm